Angie Craig: “If the Senator will yield, he makes an important point. In commercial logging operations that are qualified under the…”

“If the Senator will yield, he makes an important point. In commercial logging operations that are qualified under the U.S. Forest Service--the legitimate timber sales--some of those logs, once cut, and beyond the 12-inch diameter size that get to the mill, that are deteriorating or have, as you call it, the rot of the center and cannot be milled, put on a mill head rig and moved, fall apart, I think that is residue by anyone's definition when it is determined, at least in the mill yard, that no commercial value can come from it. Clearly, I think that falls under that definition. But I appreciate the Senator mentioning it. What we are doing, along with passing legislation, is establishing, by the record of the floor, what is the intent of Congress. And I think that is the intent of this legislation. I thank the Senator for yielding.”